Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
And the blogosphere went into hyper overdrive. The first line of defense was that it was a fraud, and the second line of defense was to simply ignore the story. As of today – according to the Google news search engine – not one major newspaper is reporting this story other than blogger Don Surber at The Daily Mail in the UK. And he has apparently debunked the first line of defense, stating:
I checked.
Apparently that is a true image from the June 24, 2004, Standard, which is Kenya’s oldest newspaper.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
Then Surber goes on to argue that just because the report appeared in 2004, that doesn’t mean it’s true. However, what Surber and most of the blogosphere have failed to comprehend is that President Obama has admitted the headline is true.
It is undisputed that Obama was Kenyan-born by the blood of his father. That led to his Kenyan citizenship having been automatically granted in 1963 by the Kenya Independence Act.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1963/pdf/ukpga_19630054_en.pdf
JUS SANGUINIS
The legal concept by which it is undisputed that President Obama was “Kenyan-born” is “jus sanguinis“, which means “right of blood”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis
Furthermore, President Obama admitted that, under the British Nationality Act of 1948 – at the time of his birth –he was a British citizen.
It has also been accurately reported by Factcheck.org that President Obama became a Kenyan citizen in 1963.
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“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”
(However, a separate key aspect of that report was false and eventually corrected by Factcheck who cited this blog’s report and analysis in their mea culpa. Please also note their second mea culpa to this blog.)
JUS SOLI
Unfortunately, the undisputed legal fact of Obama’s jus sanguinis foreign birth has been supplanted by the sensational conspiracy theory relating to the place of his birth. The headline from the 2004 Kenyan news report does not indicate whether “Kenyan-born” relates to Obama’s Kenyan bloodline or – in the alternative – to his place of birth. Place of birth citizenship is conferred by a legal concept known as “jus soli“, meaning law of the soil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Please don’t miss the forest for the trees. President Obama admits to having been a British citizen at birth by law and a son of Kenyan blood which led to automatic Kenyan citizenship in 1963. This alone should disqualify him from POTUS eligibility – regardless of where he was born – since he was a dual citizen at birth and at least until 1984.
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of the US Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/